[Cialug] OT: Making use of motherboard USB headers

Daniel A. Ramaley daniel.ramaley at DRAKE.EDU
Fri Sep 14 12:46:02 CDT 2007


I recently built a new machine (running Linux, of course). The 
motherboard has 4 USB ports on the back, but also some pins for 2 more. 
Any idea where to get something to make use of the extra ports?

I assume what i need looks like a USB port on one end and a connector to 
attach to the pins on the other, with some sort of cable in between. 
However, so far i've not found something like that when looking through 
the few parts catalogs i have. At the moment i don't have an actual 
*need* for the extra ports, but it might be nice to put the extras on 
the front of the case to make plugging in a flash drive more 
convenient.

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